There's no runaway favourite yet like there was with Italy this time last year, but that might be a good thing for the artists as the last few years have shown that early hype of one entry tends to fade as the rehearsals begin. ('Heroes' went against this trend by being consistantly popular from the moment people heard it, although it was still Il Volo who were the favourites this time three years ago as I don't think Mans had won Melodifestivalen yet).

 

Unless the last few countries left reveal something huge this could be a really open year.

I think of everything revealed so far, and apart from Aussies being at a slight televote disadvantage, I think this has got the least amount of things ‘wrong’ with it. Given Estonia’s a bit cold and distant, Finland’s probably going to be all wacko jacko, Belgium doesn’t really have a proper climax and although Bulgaria’s not out yet they’ve said they went with the riskier of their front runners so who knows what to expect there I can see a situation where this takes the win by accident.

This is good if a little “text book”. It’s another top ten result although I think Australia will need to be a bit riskier if they want the prize. I agree, there is several for the win potentially. I do think Finland has the edge but the staging needs to be on another stratosphere.

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This is absolutely stunning :wub: I adore the message behind it at all, really backing this for a win.

It's an enjoyable pop song, sure. I don't think a winner though, it would have to be a really weak and un-hyped year in the end for something on this level to take it, and it doesn't scream something that only reveals its true popularity in the semis as a lot of recent contenders have. It's partially the same keyword that's doing it but I'm thinking more Greece 2017 than anything else.

wow, you can always count on Jessica Mauboy to deliver a BOP. absolutely loving this - my fave so far :wub:

This is a right f***ing banger. Yaaaas Jess! Knew the Mouboy would deliver a fab track to save us from mediocrity.

 

Still love the song.

 

The video is very budget. I like the bits of her laying in the water but other parts where it’s zoomed out on the screen it looks like there are wires running across the floor.

There is wires, your not seeing things. Poor lass usually has a budget that’d fail to buy a KFC bucket meal but this looks like the budget was so little that they couldn’t even go to Poundland with it

It's partially the same keyword that's doing it but I'm thinking more Greece 2017 than anything else.

This is the one it reminds me most of tbh

Parts of this remind me slightly of There’s Nothing I Won’t Do by JX, particularly some of the strings towards the end and the general baseline.

 

I ran both songs through Rave.dj and the result is actually quite fun and works pretty well!

 

https://rave.dj/K1sOUnHv9eqj8Q

This is really growing on me, solid top 10!

 

Also Isaiah is on in this bar we’ve stopped off at to shelter from the sun and have a drink 😂

Quite a sudden ending on the Eurovision edit ending of this, it really misses the gorgeous outro from the radio edit.

Absolutely loving this now. What an amazing pop song!

it's SUCH an effing bop, i'm never going to get over europe snubbing this.

It’s definitely the 2nd best of 2018 ESC now :wub:

I think this would have done better if Jess and Saara weren't beside each other with similar tempo songs

I can't get over this getting paid absolute dust in the vote. What is wrong with people? This is a solid gold banger.

 

Granted, her vocal on the night was not her best (and she looked like she'd been out on the lash for a week straight), but you can't deny the song. This was robbed.

I think realistically, Europe are reluctant to pick up the phone and vote for Australia - there are a lot of people who don't agree with them even being in the contest especially given they were supposed to be in for a one off (which most were fine with). Even Dami 'only' came 5th.

 

Though are we still pretending that Jess wasn't pretty poor vocally in the final?

Her average televote rank was 16.95, and she didn't actually come last in any of the televotes (her lowest was 23rd in Azerbaijan, Cyprus, France and Italy) so it wasn't that no one voted for her, she just didn't get enough votes to push her into the top 10 and grab some points (she came 11th-15th in 13 countries).

 

At least she didn't have a televote disaster like Iceland, who managed less televotes than Azerbaijan in Armenia :drama:

I don't think it helped either that the two faves were uptempo female songs, like most people are only gonna vote for 1, maybe 2 songs, so that's probably where she ended up 11-15 in a lot of votes sadly :( It's more liked than 9 televote points suggests but ofc that's just what happens when you're just outside points for a lot of people, no differnece between 11th or last.

I don't think it helped either that the two faves were uptempo female songs, like most people are only gonna vote for 1, maybe 2 songs, so that's probably where she ended up 11-15 in a lot of votes sadly :( It's more liked than 9 televote points suggests but ofc that's just what happens when you're just outside points for a lot of people, no differnece between 11th or last.

I think you’re right tbh. Saara would’ve done better if Fuego and Toy didn’t exist.